ABSTRACT

The ‘homeless body’ has been largely constructed in scholarship as a ‘discursive body’ while it has been inadequately grounded in empirical space. Drawing from ethnographic research, this article attempts a twofold, gradual re-placement: a conceptual replacement of the ‘discursive homeless body’ as material bodies, which shape homeless subjectivities; and a spatial re-placement of these bodies in Athens’ formal spaces of care, where homeless subjects respond to the provided care through a personal body work. The re-placement is conceptualized through ‘stigma dialectic’, namely, the continuous embodiment and emplacement of the homeless stigma within these spaces. There, the stigmatized as ‘dirty’ homeless subjects achieve a geographical-social ordering as visceral practices of cleanliness make homeless bodies ‘in place’, closer to the non-stigmatized staff and volunteers. At the same time though, and while ‘in place’, homeless subjects try to make their bodies ‘out of place’, away from other, stigmatized homeless bodies. Informed by literatures on geographies of care, visceral geographies, and by performative approaches to homeless geographies, the article suggests that the personal body work might have significant implications for a neoliberalizing ethic of care, the spaces it structures and is enabled through, and the homeless subjectivities it structures, especially in times of welfare restructuring.

摘要

“无家可归的身体”在学术上很大程度上被构建为“话语的身体”，而它在经验空间中的基础并不充分。借鉴民族志研究，本文尝试进行双重的、渐进的重新定位：将“话语无家可归的身体”概念化为物质身体，塑造无家可归者的主体性；并在雅典的正式护理空间中重新放置这些身体，无家可归的受试者通过个人身体工作对所提供的护理做出反应。重新安置是通过“耻辱辩证法”概念化的，即无家可归者耻辱在这些空间内的连续体现和安置。在那里，被污名化为“肮脏”的无家可归者实现了地理-社会秩序，因为清洁的本能做法使无家可归者的身体“就位”，更接近未受到污名的工作人员和志愿者。但与此同时，在“原地”时，无家可归者试图让他们的身体“不合时宜”，远离其他人，污名化无家可归的尸体。根据有关护理地理、本能地理和无家可归者地理的表演方法的文献，本文认为，个人身体工作可能对新自由主义的护理伦理、它所构建和启用的空间以及无家可归者具有重要意义。它构建的主观性，尤其是在福利重组时期。